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Original => Hot Tub Forum => Topic started by: Topline Mike on April 13, 2014, 12:04:35 pm

Title: Filter Cleaning with TSP
Post by: Topline Mike on April 13, 2014, 12:04:35 pm

Is this the right stuff?  I found it at my local farm and garden store, Fleet Farm.  It was less than $5 for this box.  Contains sodium carbonate, sodium metasilicate, and EDTA. 

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Title: Re: Filter Cleaning with TSP
Post by: Dr. Spa™ Ret. on April 13, 2014, 02:52:55 pm

That is NOT TSP. TSP is tri sodium phosphate. What you have is phosphate-free, and it's the phosphates that do most of the actual cleaning (of oils and such). More and more states/cities are banning TSP and anything with phosphates as it's not at all ecologically "friendly".

Title: Re: Filter Cleaning with TSP
Post by: chem geek on April 13, 2014, 03:09:25 pm

You want TSP, not TSP-PF, as shown here (http://www.amazon.com/Savogran-10621-Trisodium-Phosphate-16oz/dp/B0001GOGQW).

Title: Re: Filter Cleaning with TSP
Post by: Topline Mike on April 13, 2014, 09:49:25 pm

Quote from: Dr. Spa™ Ret. on April 13, 2014, 02:52:55 pm

That is NOT TSP. TSP is tri sodium phosphate. What you have is phosphate-free, and it's the phosphates that do most of the actual cleaning (of oils and such). More and more states/cities are banning TSP and anything with phosphates as it's not at all ecologically "friendly".

C'mon, Dr. Spa.  It says right on the box, "The power of TSP".  ;D

So if I did use this product, I won't be getting the cleaning power of regular TSP, but it won't hurt to try it, right? 

Title: Re: Filter Cleaning with TSP
Post by: Dr. Spa™ Ret. on April 14, 2014, 09:50:29 am

If you read it, I guess it must be true.   ;)